Kuttanad Assembly Election 2016

Current Trend

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, UDF had secured a lead of 1,195 votes over the LDF. New political equations are shaping up. The emergence of BJP is also a factor in the coming 2016 assembly elections. Sitting NCP legislator Thomas Chandy is once again in the fray on behalf of the LDF. Competing against him is Jacob Abraham of Kerala Congress (M), a partner of UDF.

Kuttanad Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

Thomas Chandy

NCP

Won50114

Adv. Jacob Abraham

KEC(M)

45223

Subhash Vasu

BDJS

33044

Nandanan Valiyaparambu

SUCI(C)

371

Sanil.P.M(Sunny Pathinaril)

BSP

354

NOTA

NOTA

346

Jose Koippally

IND

263

Jacob Abraham Panavelil

IND

262

Mohanan

IND

105

Electoral History and Background

Thomas Chandy of the Nationalist Congress Party, a constituent of the LDF, is the sitting MLA of Kuttanad which he won by defeating Thomas Chandy of Kerala Congress (M) by a margin of 7,971 votes in 2011. In that election, Thomas Chandy had polled 60010 votes to defeat Thomas Chandy who is now with Kerala Congress (Democratic), a partner of the LDF.

Thomas Chandy had also won the seat in 2006 on behalf of the DIC(K). Earlier K.C. Joseph of the Kerala Congress (J) had represented the Kuttanad assembly constituency from 1982 to 2001.

Following the delimitation process in 2011, Veeyapuram from Haripad assembly seat and Nedumudy, Kainakari and Thakazhy grama panchayats from the Ambalappuzha assembly constituency have been integrated with the Kuttanad constituency.

Kuttanad is one of the seven assembly segments that combine to create the Lok Sabha constituency of Mavelikkara. Changanassery, Mavelikkara, Chengannur, Kunnathur Kottarakkara and Pathanapuram are the other six assembly constituency located within the Mavelikkara parliamentary constituency.

Kuttanad assembly constituency, where female voters outnumber the males, has a total electorate of 160851. Of them 77650 are males and 83201 are females.